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Is There Life Beyond the Earth?Awake!—1973 | May 22
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Astronaut Frank Borman said:
“When you look at our earth from two hundred and forty thousand miles away, especially over a horizon that has been bombarded for eons, you see that our planet is the only thing in the universe that has any color in it. You don’t know whether the blue is water or the blue is land . . . We share such a beautiful planet. . . . the overwhelming wonderment is why in the world we can’t appreciate what we have.”
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Is There Life Beyond the Earth?Awake!—1973 | May 22
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Just before the launching of the Apollo 17 lunar mission, Astronaut Eugene Cernan, on his second flight to the vicinity of the moon, said:
“When you look back at the earth from the moon and you see the perfectness of it and the beauty of it and the logic of it all, you know it didn’t happen by accident. It is moving with beauty and you get a feeling that you are looking at our earth as God, whoever that God might be, envisioned it when he created it. I’m anxious to get back and get that feeling again.”—New York “Times,” December 8, 1972.
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Is There Life Beyond the Earth?Awake!—1973 | May 22
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[Picture on page 13]
Looking at the earth from the moon, astronauts speak of the earth’s uniqueness, its beauty and the fact that our home in space could not have come about by accident
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